She happened to hear Liu Chunfang's words and immediately flew into a rage. "I'd like to see who dares hit my precious grandson!"
"Liu Chunfang, you barren hen, if you dare get rid of my precious grandson, this old woman will fight you all to the death today."
Facing Old Lady Su, her former mother-in-law, Liu Chunfang retreated for a moment.
But she quickly remembered how she and her daughter had lived in the Su family all these years.
She remembered how the old hag had never treated her or her daughter like human beings, doing nothing but curse and beat them.
Even during heavy snow, she had forced her daughter to go up the mountain to cut pigweed and down to the river to wash clothes first thing in the morning. Even when her daughter was sick with a high fever, she had forced her to work in the fields.
The usually weak and useless Liu Chunfang finally threw caution to the wind when facing the mother-in-law she had once feared:
"You old hag, even if I, Liu Chunfang, am useless, I'm still more useful than your son!
"Your son is a worthless good-for-nothing. He's eaten for free all these decades and grown so big, yet he has to listen to everything you say.
"Why doesn't he just spend the rest of his life with you, you old hag?
"Why bother marrying a wife? Why have children?"
Old Lady Liu was deeply gratified to see her daughter being so forceful.
She cast a contemptuous glance at Yang Yue'e's belly. "Hmph, what precious grandson? I can tell from that pointed belly of hers that it's definitely a girl.
"And that girl might not even have the Su family's blood in her veins. After all, her man had only been dead